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vincar

Portuguese, verb/vĩˈka(ʁ)/

vincar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to crease, fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “marcar com vinco, dobra”.

What does vincar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to crease, fold

  2. 2

    to underline, highlight

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. marcar com vinco, dobra 2. sublinhar, destacar 3. fazer prega

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of vincar

  • vinco first-person present singular
  • vinquei first-person preterite singular
  • vincado participle past
  • c-qu alternation
  • vincares infinitive second-person singular
  • vincarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • vincardes infinitive plural second-person
  • vincarem infinitive plural third-person
  • vincando gerund
  • vincados masculine participle past
  • vincada feminine participle past
  • vincadas feminine participle past
  • vincas indicative present second-person
  • vinca indicative present singular
  • vincamos first-person indicative plural
  • vincais indicative plural present
  • vincam indicative plural present
  • vincava first-person imperfect indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce vincar?

  • Brazil /vĩˈka(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [vĩˈka(h)]
  • /vĩˈka(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is vincar in Portuguese?

vincar appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).